The daughter of Los Angeles police sheriff Morris Walters, Jennifer Walters developed her own strong sense of right from his example. She and her best friend Jill Stevens regularly babysat Jen's next door neighbor, Daniel "Zapper" Ridge, who soon developed a lasting crush on her. Jen spent her summers in Charlestown, Ohio with her maternal cousin, Robert Bruce Banner (the Hulk) and despite a five year age gap they became as close as siblings. They often spent long evenings reading to one another in the local library; however, they lost touch after Bruce switched degrees to nuclear physics.

Though her father hoped she might follow him into law enforcement, Jen wanted to be a dancer. En route to one of Jen's dance recitals, her mother Elaine's car collided head on with another vehicle, killing her; officially the crash was blamed on the other driver's drunkeness, but Morris Walters eventually learned that it had been an attempt on his life arranged by local mob boss Nick Trask. After Elaine's death, both Jen and her father retreated into obsessions with law and justice; Morris poured himself into his work, and Jen into law studies, driving herself to reach the top. Attending Harvard, Jen neither mingled nor partied, graduating summa cum laude. She had her pick of top firms to join, but she chose to go into private practice; though an excellent lawyer, she often lost cases to cocky Assistant District Attorney Joachim "Buck" Bukowski.

Unknown to Jen, her cousing Bruce had become the monstrous Hulk. Attempting to make contact, Bruce found Jen with a ruptured appendix, and while rushing her into a hospital as the Hulk, was attacked by the Champions. The delay nearly cost Jen her life, and barely conscious during the incident, she did not learn till much later who had saved her life. When Nick Trask framed rival mobster Lou Monkton for murder, Jen took up Morton's defense. Hoping to shake up Trask, Jen planted a rumor that she had evidence implicating Trask as the killer, shortly before her fugitive cousin Bruce approached her.

Jen had just driven him back to her house when Trask's men shot her. Aware Jen had lost too much blood, Bruce gave her an emergency transfusion, the fled moments after the authorities arrived. Recovering in the hospital, Jen hated how vulnerable she felt, unaware of the mutagenic changes her cousin's irradiated blood were making to her body; when Trask's thugs tried to finish her off, adrenaline triggered Jen's transformation into a larger, green-skinned form, dubbed a "She-Hulk" by one of the attackers. Empowered psychologically as well as physically, Jen vowed to herself that whatever Jennifer Walters couldn't handle, the She-Hulk would.

Trying again to eliminate Jen, Trask's men rigged her car to crash; unfortunately, her friend Jill died in her place, and witness Buck Bukowski erronously thought the She-Hulk had killed her. Jen let the public, her father included, believe she had died, to deter further attempts. Trask blackened She-Hulk's name further, using a murderous green robot, before he finally seemingly died while attacking the She-Hulk with a giant Silver Serpent robot.

With the public now aware Jen was alive, the She-Hulk produced the green robot's remains to clear her name for those attacks; however, she continued to be blamed for Jill's death. Having shared her secret with Zapper, now a med student, Jen asked him to analyze a blood sample, worried that she was changing at the slightest provocation and that She-Hulk's increasingly strong personality might engulf her own. Zapper's friend, Ralphie Hutchins, directed Zapper to the former "Living Vampire" Dr.Michael Morbius, working on campus under police guard. He identified a fatal degenerative disease in Jen's blood and provided a serum, which not only cured the condition, but also gave her control over her changes. Jen, in turn, represented Morbius in court, getting multiple murder charges reduced to manslaughter, though her father angrily disowned her for doing so.

Soon after She-Hulk met Stargod (John Jameson), indirectly assisting in saving the dying Other-Realm he protected. Jen found she increasingly enjoyed being She-Hulk, preferring battles with foes such as Ultima, Man-Elephant, the Grappler and Man-Killer over dealing with the rival romantic interests of Zapper and new beau Richard Rory, or the growing estrangement from her father. Meanwhile, Buck finally learned the truth about Jill's death and cleared the She-Hulk's name.

Ralphie showed the blood sample Zapper had given him to an ambitious geneticist, "Doc", who duped Zapper into luring She-Hulk into a trap, hoping to use her blood to create a super-villain army; when she broke free, Doc turned Ralphie into a monster, "Brute", to battle her. After escaping, She-Hulk told Zapper his betrayal was the last straw, announced she would never change back into Jen, and departed Los Angeles.

Transforming Ralphie into a series of super-villains - Seeker, Radius, Torque and Earth-Lord - Doc used him both to hound the She-Hulk, and through his front man Shade, to muscle in on the LA underworld, but She-Hulk stopped him with the assistance of her penitent friends and father. Having reconciled with those closest to her, She-Hulk set out on a road trip, encountering the hitchkiding Thing (Ben Grimm) and stopping the Negator from causing a meltdown at the Diablo Nuclear Plant.

Eventually reaching New York, she accepted the Wasp's invitation to join the Avengers. She swiftly proved her worth in battles against the Masters of Evil, the Fomor, AIM and T'rannikus' troll army; however, when the Champion of the Universe selected Earth's strongest inhabitants to fight him, she was disappointed the the chauvinistic alien left her off the list. She-Hulk enjoyed her new team's camaraderie, soon becoming close to both the Wasp and Scarlet Witch (Wand Maximoff), though her relationship with Hawkeye (Clint Barton) was more antagonistic.

Meanwhile, her cousin Bruce gained control of his Hulk form, and much to She-Hulk's delight, was given a presidential pardon for his past crimes. When the Avengers aided Hulk against his old foe, the Leader, the cousins had their first chance to talk properly since Jen's transformation. Bruce appologized for turning her into a monster like him, but she told him she viewed the change as a gift, turning her from a victim into someone with the power to do good. Bruce would later admit that he came to see the She-Hulk as one of his few redeeming features, a case where he had not only saved a loved one's life, but had helped to create a hero.

During a rematch with the Masters of Evil, the Radioactive Man turned She-Hulk back into Jen with gamma rays; she was initially scared and unable to turn back, but Hawkeye deliberately taunted her until he provoked the transformation, his actions proving the start of a lasting friendship. Later the She-Hulk was kidnapped alongside other heroes by the powerful Beyonder, who transported them to "Battleworld" to fight an assemblage of their foes. When the Wrecking Crew's Bulldozer seemingly slew the Wasp, She-Hulk single-handedly invaded the villains' base, nearly taking down the entire Wrecking Crew before newly created super-villain Titania ("Skeeter" MacPherran) joined in, turning the tide. The two women briefly battled one-on-one, but the assembled villains came to Titania's rescue when She-Hulk got the upper hand. Humiliated, Titania would later become one of the She-Hulk's most persistent foes. After the heroes finally won the day and were preparing to return home, the Thing told She-Hulk he intended to stay behind for a while and asked her to take his place in the Fantastic Four.

Feeling like an intruder in the close-knit team at first, She-Hulk soon became part of their family. During a battle with the extraterrestrial Terminus, she met the FF's old ally Wyatt Wingfoot, who became her boyfriend. A paparazzo working for sleaze magazine "The Naked Truth" photographed She-Hulk sunbathing on the FF's roof, using the wind from his helicopter to expose her temporarily; Jen was unable to prevent the pictures seeing print, but the printers, unaware the photos were meant to be green, color corrected them, making Jen unrecognizable. When the Thing finally returned from Battleworld, She-Hulk figured her time with the Four was ending, realizing that what had started as a substituing job had grown into something special; however, Ben decided not to rejoin the team. When the Fantastic Four pursued the evil Psycho-Man into the Microverse, he captured them and imprisioned the She-Hulk in the mines of Nuvidia, artificially conditioned to be too terrified to use her strength against the warders; however, the fugitive Pricess Pearla helped her break his brainwashing.

Elements in the US government, worried the She-Hulk might lose control like her cousin had, ordered elite intelligence agency SHIELD to apprehend her for analysis, "Operation Green Genes". They teleported She-Hulk, Wyatt and various passersby from a New York street to the SHIELD Helicarrier, where the sadistic Agent Dooley oversaw a torturous examination; however, one of the other abductees was the host of a malevolant cockroach collective, which fed off radiation. It picked Dooley as its new host and crashed the carrier, hoping to send its power core into meltdown; She-Hulk destroyed the cockroaches and stopped the meltdown, but was exposed to massive levels of radiation. Unable to change back to Jen afterwards, She-Hulk had Mr.Fantastic (Reed Richards) examine her. Finding no physical cause, he secretly brought in psychologist Doc Samson, who concluded that She-Hulk simply didn't want to become Jen again; Reed lied to her and told her the radiation had put a genetic lock on her, an excuse she happily accepted. The next few months saw the Fantastic Four battle the Skrulls, Doctor Doom (Victor von Doom), the Beyonder, Blaastar and Annihilus.

Learning that her cousin Bruce had been separated from the Hulk, She-Hulk rushed to his hospital bed, and later helped subdue the now mindless Hulk so he and Bruce could be re-merged to save Bruce's life.

She-Hulk also went hunting for the Thing, who had gone missing in California, and clashed with his girlfriend Ms. Marvel (Sharon Ventura), but failed to locate him. Her teammates proved more successful, and the Thing rejoined the Fantastic Four. Feeling at loose ends, she returned to the Avengers in time to battle the Olympian gods, whose ruler Zeus unfairly blamed the Avengers for severe injuries his son Hercules had suffered while serving with them. Alongside Thor, She-Hulk personally fought the king of the gods until Hercules recovered sufficiently to make Zeus realize he had acted rashly.

After attending the wedding of Johnny Storm and Alicia Masters (secretly the Skrull Lyja), She-Hulk was drawn into the Collector's contest with Death for the life of the Grandmaster, and was killed by Drax the Destroyer, temporarily joining the Legion of the Unliving before being restored to life. When the Super-Adaptoid's robotic Heavy Metal team attacked the Avengers, She-Hulk battled the Mad Thinker's Awesome Android, later to become an important part of her life. After being mentally manipulated by Dr. Druid and Nebula (actually the Terminatrix), She-Hulk quit the team, needing time to be alone. She returned to courtroom, challenging the constitutionality of the recently enacted Mutant Registration Act on behalf of young mutant Therese Handel.

She-Hulk went to work for District Attorney Blake Towers, soon learning the job had been partially arranged by his secretary Louis "Weezi" Mason, formerly the World War II heroine Blonde Phantom. She continued to juggle her career with her heroic one, battling foes such as the Circus of Crime, the Headmen and Dr. Bong. She fought alongside Razorback against Xenmu the Titan, who sought to make her his mate; worked with Nick St. Christopher (Santa Claus) to uncover evidence against a maniacal serial killer; and protected image consultant Lexington Loopner against Pseudo-Man.

Having drifted apart after she left the Fantastic Four, She-Hulk looked up Wyatt and renewed their relationship, even briefly getting engaged, but they soon broke it off. Rejoining the Avengers, She-Hulk was among the heroines briefly mesmerized into serving as the "Brides of Set" during Ghaur's failed plot to restore the elder god Set to Earth; she was also among the Avengers who helped sway public opinion against a proposed Super-Powers Registration Act. She battled her cousin David Pike, now the super-villain Brawn, and discovered that Warlord Krang's Major Motion Pictures was making an unauthorized She-Hulk movie; intended to flop so Krang could bilk his investors, it proved a surprise hit, staying sold-out for over 10 weeks. Aided by Howard the Duck, the Critic and the Terror, She-Hulk next prevented Dr. Angst's Band of the Bland from crushing together several realities to create the mundane Insipiverse. As an Avengers member, she helped thwart a breakout from the Vault super prison and battled Terminus, the Outlaws, Stellaris, Ngh the Unspeakable and the Tetrarchs of Entropy. Alongside Nosferata, she took down Jack Serious and the Dorkjam Asylum inmates, and the Phantom Blonde (Weezi's daughter Wanda Mason) helped her stop Jasper Keaton's American Purity Party.

After defeating Adrenazon, Spragg the Living Hill, the Mole Man and Black Talon's X-Humed, during which last conflict she inadvertently gained the zombie manservant Garth, She-Hulk renewer her relationship with Wyatt and spent Christmas with her father, temporarily becoming Jen again thanks to Nick St. Christopher's gift. Wyatt helped her battle the Living Eraser from Dimension Z and Mahkizmo before She-Hulk and Weezi ventured into space to battle Spragg and Xenmu again, rescuing Razorback, Taym O'Connell and Rocket Raccoon from the D'Bari Vuk and the Xartans/Carbon Copy Men. Captured during this last escapade, She-Hulk had an Ovoid in an adjacent cell give her the power to switch minds; intending to swap with Weezi so she could update her other allies, She-Hulk instead found the gamma radiation in her blood interfered with the process, so they switched physiques instead. The pair returned to Earth, where Weezi enjoyed a brief stint as the new She-Hulk before normality was restored.

The robot War Zone attacked She-Hulk, introducing a toxin into her bloodstream to gradually remove her powers. She sought the help of Zapper, now a brilliant hemotologist, unaware that War Zone had been sent by Zapper's father-in-law, Hector DeVasquez, who believed killing her would remove his daughter's competition for Zapper's affections. Arriving in LA, She-Hulk battled the Rumbler, who killed her; discovering the gamma rays were preventing her brain's port-mortem decay, Zapper revived She-Hulk with an infusion of gamma rays, briefly turning her into a more muscular, "savage" form. Attacked again by War Zone and DeVasquez, the latter's gamma tank overloaded She-Hulk, causing her to revert to Jen; the Hulk voluntarily provided another transfusion to restore her powers. She later fought alongside her cousin against Bi-Beast, battled Electro and the Scarlet Beetle, and broke up with Wyatt.

Diablo mind-controlled She-Hulk into stealing the Guardsman of Chthon statue, but Fantastic Force freed her and she joined the team for a while. After helping Doc Samson hunt the gamma-powered serial killer Patchwork, who briefly turned her into Jen again, she fought Onslaught alongside the Avengers, the Fantastic Four and other heroes. When most of the active Avengers seemingly died in that battle, She-Hulk was offered a full-time slot but declined, concentrating on her legal work. Lured away from Tower's office to become a private partner in Jeryn Hogarth's practice, Jennifer became the attorney of Heroes for Hire, aiding them against the Master's Strike Force One, Exodus' Acolytes and the Man-Beast, and enjoying a short romance with Luke Cage.

The heroes Onslaught had "killed" were saved by Franklin Richards's immense psychic powers and transported to his Counter-Earth, reborn, initially without powers or memories of their past lives, alongside counterparts of friends and family back home. The displaced heroes eventually returned home, accompanied by the Counter-Earth She-Hulk whom they erroneously believed was the original. When they entered their home reality, the second She-Hulk was absorbed into her counterpart. Rejoining the shorthanded Avengers, She-Hulk battled Template, Kulan Gath and Count Nefaria before joining the Human Torch's temporary Fantastic Four (with Ant-Man and Namorita) to battle Gideon Trust and the Awesome Android. After the Hulk and other senior members of the Defenders were driven insane and became the tyrannical Order, Nighthawk assembled their female counterparts, including the She-Hulk, to defeat them and restore them to normal. She also returned to her job as one of Tower's prosecutors.


When the Avengers investigated the bio-weapon Bloodwash's release near Mount Rushmore, She-Hulk was exposed to the virus. Her teammate Jack of Hearts tried to evacuate her, but his energy powers unintentionally transformed her into a more savage She-Hulk, who bounded off in search of Bruce. Her transformations were now triggered by fear, and she was brutish and destructive as She-Hulk. Jen headed to Bone, Idaho, where the Hulk had recently being sighted, but the Avengers caught up with her and she changed, demolishing much of the town in her rampage; she was eventually subdued with the Hulk's help, and Jack of Hearts corrected the gamma radiation balance within her; however, She-Hulk's guilt over Bone saw her changing unintentionally back to Jen during her sleep and partying hard during the day. Her hedonistic lifestyle ultimately forced the Avengers to evict her from their mansion, and Blake Tower to fire her.

Prestigious law firm Goodman, Lieber, Kurtzberg and Holliway hired her to work in the Superhuman Law Section, though Holden Holliway insisted he wanted Jennifer Walters, not the She-Hulk. Feeling a target since her dual identity was public knowledge, she received a protective spell from the Scarlet Witch so that no one who wished the She-Hulk harm could see her as Jen. She moved into the Excelsior Appartments alongside other GLK&H employees, including Awesome Andy (the reformed Awesome Android) and fellow lawyer Augustus "Pug" Publiese, who developed a massive crush on her; however, GLK&H's top lawyer Mallory Brook was less welcoming, seeing her as a rival rather than a colleague. While suing J. Jonah Jameson for years of libeling Spider-Man, Jen renewed her friendship with his son John, and they began dating, much to Pug's annoyance. After Holden's granddaughter, the super delinquent Southpaw, was arrested, he arranged for her to be released into a reluctant Jen's custody. When the Scarlet Witch went mad and attacked the Avengers, she transformed Jen into her savage persona, hospitalizing Captain Britain (Kelsey Leigh) and killing the Vision. Though aware she had been under another's control, Jen remained guilt-ridden over this.

She-Hulk was soon recruited into the cosmic Living Tribunal's Magistrati to administer universal law, silencing the Watcher Qyre at the behest of an extremely reclusive race he had observed, a ruling that angered Qyre's friend Zoma. Sent to Skardon to free it from the Champion's rule, She-Hulk fought him in the boxing ring, swifly losing the first bout; she appealed the decision and trained as Jen for three months, building her strength and being taught to fight by Gamora. Transforming for the rematch, her improved strength as Jen was exponentially increased as She-Hulk; after forcing the Champion to remove his strength-enhancing Infinity Power Gem as disallowed weapon, She-Hulk soundly beat him and made him swear never to wear the gem again.

Returning home, she found it difficult to control her increased might, borrowing John Jameson's strength-controlling Jupiter Suit; however, the vengeful former Champion, directed by Zoma, gave his gem to Titania, who smashed up the Excelsior and GLK&H's Timely Plaza offices looking for her nemesis. Titania easily knocked She-Hulk out, and she turned back into Jen, whom Titania couldn't see thanks to Wanda's protective spell. Stealing the gem from Titania, Jen used it to knock Titania out, but found herself unable to change back into the She-Hulk.

While Timely Plaza was being rebuilt, an incognito Jen helped rebuild Bone, while Doc Samson worked on a gamma charger to allow her to become the She-Hulk despite the mental blocks; Dr. Strange eventually restored her ability to transform at will by removing Wanda's protection spell. Returning to GLK&H, Jen worked on a time-travel murder case, but learned that jurors called from the past included her recently deceased friend Hawkeye. Jen attempted to slip him a note warning him of his demise, and was arrested by the Time Variance Authority (TVA). Threatened with complete removal from the timestream, and shown a probable future where something she had already done triggered the cosmos-devastating Reckoning War, Jen was given the lesser sentence of having another TVA prisoner, the Two-Gun Kid, remanded into her custody. Back on Earth, her client Starfox saw her arguing with John and tried to help by surreptitiously using his mind powers to send her head-over-heels in love with John.

In the wake of the Stamford disaster, where 612 innocents died during a superhuman battle, She-Hulk represented Speedball, the sole survivor, and came out in favor of the proposed Superhuman Registration Act (SHRA), perhaps changing her past stance in part because of her own recent transgressions; however, she also took on the Act's strongest proponent, Iron Man, challenging him on the stand during a trial to close down a hate site exposing the identities of former New Warriors. John Jameson proposed, and the couple immediately wed, but Pug revealed Starfox's action and the villainous Alistaire Smythe transformed John back into Stargod. With Starfox's influence removed, She-Hulk realized she didn't love John and she asked for an annulment.

Drafted into SHIELD via the SHRA's small print, she joined agent Clay Quartermain's Hulkbusters in rounding up her missing cousin's old foes, and worked as a trainer for the new Initiative program; however, when she discovered that Iron Man had fired the Hulk into deep space, She-Hulk confronted him, only to be stripped of her powers by a nanite injection. Warning Iron Man that she could do more damage as a lawyer than as She-Hulk, she promised to destroy him. Outlaw boy genius Amadeus Cho ("Mastermind Excello") offered to restore her powers by blocking Stark's nanites if she helped him against Iron Man, but Jen declined, wanting to do things legally; however, with the Hulk's return at the head of an alien gladiator army, Jen used Cho's treatment to restore her powers, and when talking failed to work, fought her cousin, only to end up a prisoner. Following the Hulk's defeat, Jen was freed; having used up her supply of Cho's formula, she continues to fight Stark in the courts, and has obtained an injunction preventing him from using the nanite technology on anyone else until the case is heard.

To Be Continued...